celebrated
Americanadjective
adjective
Related Words
See famous.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of celebrated
Explanation
If something is celebrated, it's famous. Your town's celebrated restaurant — the one everybody knows and talks about — might be a modest barbecue joint. A celebrated writer is an important, well-known one, like Ernest Hemingway or Maya Angelou. In your family, a celebrated figure might be the cousin who visits every summer and tells the best stories. As long as someone is talked about and revered by a group of people, they're celebrated. This adjective comes from the verb celebrate and its Latin root celebrare, "to sing praises of."
Vocabulary lists containing celebrated
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Example Sentences
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One of the detainees was 16-year-old Ruth Asawa, one of America’s most celebrated sculptors.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
Goldman celebrated his 67th birthday in the unit, with cake and an unlit candle delivered by his medical team, who also sang Happy Birthday to him on video.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
One of those lesser-known painters is Palmerino di Guido, who assisted Giotto in decorating the celebrated St. Nicholas and Magdalen Chapels in the basilica’s lower church.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
West Ham celebrated, Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta turned away with his head in his hands fearing a vital win had slipped through their fingers with only seconds left - then the protests began.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
He went on to have a celebrated career as a Soviet intelligence instructor and was sought after as an expert on Western espionage tactics.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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